[BUG] GhostBSD failed to install on an external USB drive.

[wb7odyfred]

Hope this is enough information to give you a peak. I upgraded the GBI with the "Software Station" system utility. Selected the ZFS full disk ( 1 Terrabyte Western Digital external USB disk), 8192 MB swap size.

cat /tmp/.pc-sysinstall/pc-sysinstall.log
kern.geom.debugflags: 16 -> 16
kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable: 0 -> 0
Deleting all gparts
Running: gpart destroy -F /dev/da0
gpart: Device busy
Clearing gpt backup table location on disk
Running: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m count=5
5+0 records in
5+0 records out
5242880 bytes transferred in 0.204330 secs (25658899 bytes/sec)
Running: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m oseek=953832
dd: /dev/da0: end of device
6+0 records in
5+0 records out
5242880 bytes transferred in 0.166794 secs (31433351 bytes/sec)
Running gpart on /dev/da0
Running: gpart create -s GPT -f active /dev/da0
gpart: geom 'da0': File exists
EXITERROR: Error 1: gpart create -s GPT -f active /dev/da0
Unmounting: /mnt
Running: umount -f /mnt
umount: /mnt: not a file system root directory

Fred Finster, [02.10.20 20:56]
[ File : pc-sysinstall.log ]
GBI to fresh disk using ZFS file system.  Older GBI.  Will update GBI to newer version and try again. @EricBSD.

Fred Finster, [02.10.20 21:37]
(error.py:26288): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:35:03.623: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:6274:9: 'bordert' is not a valid property name
/usr/local/lib/gbi/error.py:19: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "homogeneous, spacing" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations
  box1 = Gtk.VBox(False, 0)
/usr/local/lib/gbi/error.py:22: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "homogeneous, spacing" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations
  box2 = Gtk.VBox(False, 10)
/usr/local/lib/gbi/error.py:34: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "homogeneous, spacing" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations
  box2 = Gtk.HBox(False, 10)
/usr/local/lib/gbi/error.py:38: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "n_rows, n_columns, homogeneous" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations
  table = Gtk.Table(1, 2, True)
/usr/local/lib/gbi/error.py:39: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "label" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations
  ok = Gtk.Button("Ok")

pc-sysinstall.log

[ericbsd]

where are you using an external disk?

[wb7odyfred]

I placed a western digital 1terrabyte spinning hard SATA disk drive in an external SATA to usb case and plugged into a usb 3.1 port on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430 laptop. There is an internal SATA 256 GB SSD drive with Manjaro Linux installed. I use the F12 key to select the ??? Boot manager boot device,. Or boot the BOOTX64-REFIND.EFI file and select the GhostBSD image to boot up.

[wb7odyfred]

Grub>
Set root="(hd0,gpt2)"
Chainloader (hd0,gpt1)/efi/boot/BOOTX64-REFIND.EFI
boot

This is simple grub boot instructions for efi file in ESP directory. BOOTX64-REFIND.EFI

[wb7odyfred]

Do you need output from from disk list commands?
Geom disk list
Gpart show
Gpart status

[ericbsd]

Not for now, since it is a usb drives that is probably the problem. I know that USB drives has always been a problem, with the installer. I will try to put some time sure that the installer work with them.

[ericbsd]

Duplicate https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src/issues/112

[ericbsd]

Duplicate https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src/issues/112

[ericbsd]

ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src#91

[ericbsd]

issue moved from ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src to ghostbsd/issues